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Executive Director & President, Software Freedom Conservancy. Director, FSF. Software Freedom advocate. GPL Enforcer. Occasional developer.

People often ask the Free Software Foundation (FSF) what license is recommended to use for their project. The FSF has written about this publicly before, but the information has been scattered around between different essays, FAQ entries, and license commentaries. This article collects all that information into a single source, to make it easier for people to follow and refer back to.

The recommendations are focused on licensing a work that you create—whether that's a modification of an existing work, or a new original work. These recommendations do not address the issue of combining existing material under different licenses. If you're looking for help with that, please check the FSF license FAQ.

JavaScript License Web Labels is a format that the FSF proposes webmasters use to publish license information and source code for the JavaScript they deploy on their sites. It looks simple enough to be accessible to any visitor, but provides enough detail that automated tools can confirm that all of a site's JavaScript is actually free. Such software will make it practical for people to run free JavaScript and refuse nonfree code. Tools like this are already being developed: LibreJS is a plug-in for Mozilla-based browsers that will support JavaScript License Web Labels.

OpenXC is combination of open source hardware and software that lets you extend your vehicle with custom applications and pluggable modules. It uses standard, well-known tools to open up a wealth of data from the vehicle to developers.

XiVO is an application developed by the Avencall Group, based on several free existant components including Asterisk, and our own development to provide the way to an enterprise to replace or add a telephony service (PABX).

XiVO is free software. Most of its distinctive components, and XiVO as a whole, are distributed under the GPLv3 license. We are also working on a fully Open XiVO Hardware.

An Android client is also available, and XiVO remote administration for testing is available too.

En discutant avec un collègue adepte de bicyclette je me suis rendu compte que cette ressource fantastique qu'est OpenCycleMap.org est vraiment méconnue!

Ces cartes utilisent les données d'OpenStreetMap, qui elles mêmes sont alimentées par des banques de données gouvernementales, par la communauté, et bien d'autres sources. Les données sont souvent plus précises que sur Google Maps mais surtout, elles sont libres de réutilisation.

Bonne route!

LibreOffice security advisories

Starting tomorrow I will be in Boston for the annual conference of the Free Software Foundation, “LibrePlanet 2012“. We’ll be four people from Quebec (actually 5, just got last minute confirmation of another former colleague!), wanting to learn about what has been been brewing abroad and also wanting to share about our experiences here in Quebec.

Several friends have referred me this service, I may be getting a phone number there and use that instead of using directly my cell phone number.

switch2osm.org explains how to make the switch – from first principles to technical how-tos.

A very good video introducing LibreOffice, (briefly) explaining the OpenOffice.org transition and showing all the applications.

includes an update.zip file with the fix for missing voicemail indicator on HTC Panache (Glacier) on Videotron

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